Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 2016/06/27 11:20:
Recently we have discovered (in a thread on the Italian ML), that someone has
deprecated amenity=nursing_home by putting a disclaimer on the wikipage [1] to
use
amenity=social_facility
social_facility=group_home
[...]
What do you say, shouldn't we remove this disclaimer from the nursing home page
and shall we continue to encourage the use of the tag amenity=nursing_home
where it applies to?
No. amenity=social_facility is a success story of structured tagging, and
nursing_home -> social_facility shows in Mathias Dahl excellent tag migration
analysis [1] as the tag with the highest transition count, thus excellent
acceptance among mappers.
A nursing home is indeed a social facility, and with the sub-tags of
social_facility=* and social_facility:for=* you can specify quite
precisely what type it is and who it is provided for.
I agree that subsuming permanent care under the type social_facility=group_home
is not ideal, and it might be possible to develop a better match,
such as social_facility=permanent_care (contrasting the =ambulatory_care) or
similar
for this type, even social_facility=nursing_home could be possible.
[1]
http://matiasdahl.iki.fi/2015/finding-related-amenity-tags-on-the-openstreetmap
tom
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